May 2012 PSN Top Sellers: The Walking Dead Invades The Charts

The Walking Dead made a big impression on PSN players this month, with the first episode of Telltale Games’ episode zombie series claiming the top spot in May. You’ll also notice a great resurgence in the PixelJunk series, due likely in part to May’s deep-discount PixelJunk sale that saw many PixelJunk favorites sell for a just buck.

In PS Vita news, Escape Plan’s iron grip on the throne has finally been loosened — NetherRealm Studios’ bone-crunching fighter Mortal Kombat takes the top slot this month. In PS one Classics, Legend of Dragoon’s long-awaited release reshuffled the usual crowd of top performers. Starting this month, by community request, we’re also happy to integrate a new chart examining PS2 Classics performance! In May, Max Payne stole the show just in time for Max Payne 3’s arrival on Blu-ray Disc.

Get the download on all of May’s top sellers below. Did your favorite game make the grade? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!

the walking dead will keep droping in the charts if they dont let us season pass holders know something about that 2nd episode.Its been three damn months when they said every month.they didnt let us know anything what so ever til this day.thats bad buisness.WE NEED TO KNOW SOMETHING NOW,TODAY,NOT TOMM OR THE NEXT DAY, NOW!!!!!!!! SOMETHING , ANYTHING

Why are there no numbers for Minis? If Sony wants the Vita to succeed you need to attract the smaller indie devs. If small devs see that Minis sell well they will start migrating to Vita and the consumer will have the bite size games they can get on iOS. SCEA and SCEJ have done a really poor job of supporting Mini devs.

Resistance Burning Skies came out on may 29th and still managed to be in the top 10 list? very nice to see, the game is great but not perfect if Nihilistic release a patch with improved online functionality, less powerful mule, add top rank, 3 more maps and new modes would be really, really awesome.

Huh, I had no idea the vita had 10 games total…
Also, I’m with mckenzie1021 (which is funny, because of our avatars), telltale seriously needs to deliver on their obligation. And make no mistake, it’s an obligation to season pass holders. We did give them our money upfront. And what they gave us was a demo at e3?! Gee, thanks for the demo of the game they should’ve released a month ago!

you’re absolutely right! on April 23rd, the day before release, Jake Rodkin, Writer and Designer at Telltale Games posted on the blogand stated “Given that this game is episodic, players can expect a summer-long continuing story of adventure horror that will begin with our first episode ‘A New Day’, followed by four additional episodes, each landing about each month after the previous one.”

If that timeframe of “about each month after the previous” was followed correctly, we would have had our 2nd episode on or around May 24th, but here we are on June 13th now and nothing, not even a mention. in all honesty, Robert Kirkman is probably more wrapped up with trying to get DISH Network to keep AMC then he is actually getting out the game to people like us that have paid for the series in full. still, it doesn’t excuse the delay or the lack of explanation regarding the delay.

Hey guys, this is completely off topic but has anyone else noticed that when you change your PSN avatar on your PS3 the changes are instantaneous on playstation.com and also on ps blog – but ONLY if its an avatar you’ve never used before?

I find when I change it to an avatar I’ve used previously it does show up the next time I sign into playstation.com, but not when I sign into ps blog. It’s like ps blog can’t display or update pre-cached avatars?

It’s not that big of a deal, just wondered if anyone else has experienced this?

lol prolly is keeping it for himself. I’m currently waiting for a responce back on Twitter from @telltalegames on when the 2nd episode is coming, IF it’s even coming, and why the delay. will post when I find out….if I find out lol

Now, we all realize that this walking dead thing isn’t playstation’s fault, but telltale’s. However, the season pass is a playstation thing, isn’t it? Xbox didn’t have this deal, right? So, that kinda makes it your business, PS. You could look into this for us, ask telltale for an official statement of some kind.

There’s some good Vita games on that list. Everyone with a Vita should try the Escape Plan demo. Now, let’s get a post about the current and upcoming Move games!

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Regarding mini games, I don’t believe they need trophies, networking capabilities, or other enhancements like recent articles have stated. They’re great little games to play on the Vita. All they need is:
– A price cap of say, $2.99, and
– A way to be better organized on the Vita so we aren’t using multiple screens to contain them.

@30, well at least for us whom purchased the complete series- it did include a discount. I wonder what happened… perhaps something to do w/ the choices we made in Episode 1 not working on Episode 2. It had to be a major issue to be this late.

Datura did look interesting at first but with mixed reviews and no demo I didn’t want to risk buying a game that I would play once and never again. If only we could have demo’s for every game like how they do on the Xbox Marketplace. It would really be a smart idea and I believe the sales for games will be better if people can play before they buy.

what about max payne 3 local justice map pack;anybody know about that.i have the rockstar pass;hopefully its soon.supose to be this month.hope i dont have to hold my breath on that like episode 2 on the walking dead

not surprising to see the pixeljunk games on the list , anyone who did not buy them at the $1 price they sent on sale at in May probably owned them already or owned most and got the one(s) they missed . But was surprised pixeljunk shooter was the highest on the list of those games and shooter 2 was not on at all – maybe lots of players had only played shooter 2 and wanted the 1st game ?

only game I got on that list in May was PJ eden , I had the rest and somehow missed out on buying eden earlier , now just put eden encore on sale for $2.99 so I can get that too please

please consider as well a dlc sale at some point , we always have bundle sales or game sales but rarely dlc sales
I want to get the arkham city dlc , mortal kombat dlc and heavy rain dlc but do not want to pay 50% or more of the cost of the full game for dlc alone – all arkham city dlc comes to $25 and the game is only $29,99 so that;s a rippoff I think

It’s nice to see that the Mass Effect 3 online community is healthy enough to make the Premium Spectre Pack a top 5 add-on. (I play myself quite a bit.) I just can’t help but wonder if the top 5 ranking is based solely on PSN wallet sales or if it also includes all the purchases made using credits that are earned playing the matches. (The Pack costs 90K credits, which can be earned in about 3-6 matches depending on skill and difficulty level.)

Can you guys please add Naruto shippuden ultimate ninja impact psp title ON PS Vita PLEASE!!!! i bought it 2 months ago for $39.99 and thinking it will work on the PS Vita a waste of money!!!!!! IM NOT BUYING ANYTHING ELSE FROM PSN!!!!